From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 13:23:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8721065680 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) Received: from smssmtp.cbord.com (mx1.cbord.com [24.39.174.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FDC8FC21 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) X-AuditID: ac1f0165-000006a800000380-d9-491ad8c86dfc Received: from Email.cbord.com ([10.1.1.100]) by smssmtp.cbord.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:23:20 -0500 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:20:14 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200811121259.25046.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Release schedules Thread-Index: AclEtZITVTat0oGeRYKGz2FSGKHBTgAElysg References: <200811121259.25046.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> From: "Bob McConnell" To: "Jonathan McKeown" , X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Subject: RE: Release schedules X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:23:39 -0000 On Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown > What on earth is going on with release scheduling? Please keep in mind that the work is being done almost entirely by volunteers donating their "spare time". I don't know about you, but for me, spare time is what is left over after all of my other commitments are taken care of. i.e. family, income, home, etc. The amount of spare time I have fluctuates significantly, sometimes entirely disappearing for days, and is completely unpredictable. Now, some day we may be more fortunate, like Linux where Linus and several others are each being paid by some company or consortium just to maintain various portions of the system. But until that day comes, we have to allow the maintainers some slack in this and other issues. Patience is a virtue, Bob McConnell